In the news
Keep up to date with everything going on in mountain rescue around England and Wales. For press enquiries, contact Andy Simpson, MREW Press Officer, via press@mountain.rescue.org.uk.
Two-vehicle RTC in snow and ice on Kirkstone Pass
Sunday 15/12/2019 10:57 Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called by Cumbria Police to assist with the extraction of a gentleman who was stuck in his vehicle after a two car crash on the northerly decent of Kirkstone Pass. The Team arrived on scene alongside the Air Ambulance, the Fire Brigade and North West Ambulance service…
Woman reported missing in the Watermillock area
Tuesday 10/12/2019 17:47 Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out by Cumbria Police to assist in the search for a missing woman. She had gone missing from the Watermillock area and, at that point, not been seen for about 24hrs. 23 team members responded and searched land bordering the A592 under Gowbarrow Fell. The team…
Red Pike Callout 10/08/19
Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team was called out at approximately 19:00 on Saturday 10th August. The Team were requested to help two 21-year-old male walkers who had set off from Buttermere and had become lost in severe conditions on a nearby mountain. SARLOC (a phone location tool utilised by Mountain Rescue) was used to pin down…
Tree-mendous effort by Aberdyfi Rescue Team Volunteers
Shortly before 9:30 p.m. on Wed 4th December, and midway through a Team committee meeting, call-handlers from Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team were made aware of an unusual light spotted on Cader Idris. Concerns were raised by a person living in the Minffordd area over the light, which had been seen continuously from around 5:00…
Lost Walkers on Cader Idris
At around 4:15 p.m. on Monday 2nd Dec, call-handlers from Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team were made aware of two lost walkers on Cader Idris. The couple from South Wales had set out from Minffordd to scale the mountain, but navigational mistakes meant that they descended the mountain on the wrong side. Consequently, as darkness…
Aira Force ankle injury
Sunday 17/11/2019 13:11 Cumbria Police requested the assistance of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team to go to the aid of a lady in her mid fifties who had slipped whilst walking with family and friends and sustained a suspected fractured ankle. This happened just above the main Aira Force water fall on the approach to Gowbarrow Fell….